Illuminate 2020 Season I – Birmingham (UBir)

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
University of Birmingham

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Further booking information to come.

Illuminate 2020 Season I – Sheffield

University of Sheffield
Department of Music
Jessop Building

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Further booking information to come.

Illuminate 2020 Season I – York

University of York
Department of Music

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Further booking information to come.

New Music with the FLUX Quartet: Pre-Concert Talk – rescheduled to 2021

Composers Lara Poe and Jack Hughes
New Mexico Museum of Art

The Festival gives world or US premieres of eight commissioned works, including string quartets by Augusta Read Thomas, Helen Grime, and the two participants in the Festival’s 2021 Young Composers String Quartet Project, Lara Poe and Jack Hughes

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AUGUSTA READ THOMAS New Work for String Quartet (2020 Festival commission)
LARA POE New Work for String Quartet (2020 Festival commission, world premiere)
JACK HUGHES New Work for String Quartet (2020 Festival commission, world premiere)
HELEN GRIME New Work for String Quartet (2020 Festival commission) 

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FLUX Quartet (Tom Chiu, Conrad Harris, Max Mandel, Felix Fan)

Metsähalli, Sibeliustalo

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In the autumn of 2020 the Lahti Symphony Orchestra is organizing a new type of concert including the first performances of five new orchestral works.  The project involves five established Finnish composers, who will work with younger composers as mentors in writing new works for the Lahti Symphony Orchestra.  

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The composer pairings are:

Olli Moilanen – Perttu Haapanen
Petros Paukkunen – Matthew Whittall
Lara Poe – Sebastian Fagerlund
Stephen Webb – Riikka Talvitie
Dante Thelestam – Lotta Wennäkoski

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Programme:

Olli Moilanen: Väylät

Lara Poe: Kaamos

Stephen Webb: My Grievance with Nostalgia
Petros Paukkunen: Touched by Sacred Fire

Dante Thelestam: Rosverk

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The concert was broadcast on Finnish Radio YLE 1 and is available at YLE Areena until October 17.  

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Lara Poe: Taivaanranta

Martin André  conducts the RCM Philharmonic in a piece by RCM composer, Lara Poe.

Illuminate Oxford: Digital Edition

St Michael’s Church near Northgate lunchtime concert series

​Come and join us in your lunch break to enjoy the works of women composers old and new!

​Concert starts at 1.00pm
Present online on St Michael's Near Northgate Youtube channel

Programme

Ray Gibson I Reach Out Into Darkness 
– postcard piece for piano (1/2)
Lara Poe Mainspring postcard piece for saxophone and piano
Nina Danon Aquatic dances – postcard piece for saxophone and piano
Morfydd Owen Four Welsh Impressions for solo piano
Ruth Crawford Seeger Study in Mixed accents for solo piano
Joan Tower Wings for solo saxophone
Charlotte Bray Late Snow for solo Saxophone
Yshani Perinpanayagam I only bite because you make me for solo piano
Blair Boyd Slowly Tilting, Sinking for solo piano
Angela Elizabeth Slater Echo [punch] postcard piece for saxophone and piano
Ray Gibson Ray Gibson I Reach Out Into Darkness 
– postcard piece for saxophone (2/2)

Jæren Symphoniorkester Concert

Jæren Symfoniorkester Concert

Soloist: Anne-Margrethe Svanes, soprano

Conductor: Christopher McMullen-Laird

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An orchestral programme including Lara Poe's arrangement of Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade from the Goethe songs.  

Taideyliopiston Sibelius-Akatemian perinteinen Aikamme musiikin luentosarja kutsuu tapaamaan eturivin nykysäveltäjiä. Sarjan järjestää sävellyksen ja musiikinteorian aineryhmä, ja isäntinä toimivat sävellysopettajat Juhani Nuorvala ja Matthew Whittall. Luennot torstaisin klo 13.00–14.30 Musiikkitalon auditoriossa.

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The Sibelius Academy's longstanding Current Music lecture series invites leading contemporary composers to present at this series.  The academy's composition and music theory faculty organises the series, which is led by faculty composers Juhani Nuorvala and Matthew Whittall.  Lectures run on Thursdays from 13.00 – 14.00 in the Musiikkitalo auditorium.  

University of Florida Chamber Players Tour Concert 5 – Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA

A program of chamber works, conducted by Dr. Archie Birkner.

Stravinsky – Octet for Wind Instruments

Harris – Dawn Chorus

Poe – Contradanse

Carvalho – Fabric

Rosenberg – Trail Days

Markowski – Machiavelli's Conscience

University of Florida Chamber Players Tour Concert 4 – University of Georgia, Athens, GA

A program of chamber works, conducted by Dr. Archie Birkner.

Stravinsky – Octet for Wind Instruments

Harris – Dawn Chorus

Poe – Contradanse

Carvalho – Fabric

Rosenberg – Trail Days

Markowski – Machiavelli's Conscience

University of Florida Chamber Players Tour Concert 3 – Mercer University, Macon, GA

A program of chamber works, conducted by Dr. Archie Birkner.

Stravinsky – Octet for Wind Instruments

Harris – Dawn Chorus

Poe – Contradanse

Carvalho – Fabric

Rosenberg – Trail Days

Markowski – Machiavelli's Conscience

University of Florida Chamber Players Tour Concert 2 – Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville FL

A program of chamber works, conducted by Dr. Archie Birkner.

Stravinsky – Octet for Wind Instruments

Harris – Dawn Chorus

Poe – Contradanse

Carvalho – Fabric

Rosenberg – Trail Days

Markowski – Machiavelli's Conscience

University of Florida Chamber Players Tour Concert 1 – University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

A program of chamber works, conducted by Dr. Archie Birkner.

Stravinsky – Octet for Wind Instruments

Harris – Dawn Chorus

Poe – Contradanse

Carvalho – Fabric

Rosenberg – Trail Days

Markowski – Machiavelli's Conscience

UNM Festival 2019: Motions and Nature

The Young Nordic music festival puts on a concert of electroacoustic music featuring fixed media and live electronics.

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Aleksandra Slyz’ Synesthesia combines projection, live electronics, dance and motion controllers. The dancer’s bodies become instruments, and arm position, movement speed, rotation and muscle tension become sound.

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the human a subject is is an audiovisual composition based Kobo Abe’s Woman in the Dunes, acting as an experiment in an upcoming larger-scale intermedial work by composer Olga Szymula.

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Lara Poe’s La Rivière et la forêt, in turn, has its roots in the composer’s time in the French village of Aulus-les-Bains, where the Garbet river is a prominent feature in the village’s soundscape. Nature sounds from the river’s ecosystem are combined with sounds from the village itself, creating a sounding portrait of the Occitan commune.

First held in 1946, UNM is one of the oldest festivals for new music in the North. Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland act as alternating hosts. Separate juries in each country selects the young composers. Among the music of these emerging talents the program includes mentoring guest composers Mark Andre, Veli-Matti Puumala, Martin Q Larsson, Antti Auvinen and Matthew Whittall.

The current board chairpersons are composers Dante Thelestam and Lauri Supponen.

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This year's composer representatives from Finland are: 

Tytti Arola, Thinking sounds

Tuomas Kettunen, fall, into the ocean

Leo Lehtinen, Buddies

Teemu Mastovaara, Mit inniger Empfindung

OON: Johanna Tarkkanen ja Sarah Palu, Metsänkellot

Lara Poe, La Rivière et la forêt

Leevi Räsänen, Ajassa

Works by Mendelssohn, Osvaldo Golijov, Lara Poe, Fred Lerdahl, and Brahms.  A Full-length chamber music concert of both standard repertoire and contemporary works, performed by TMC Fellows. Additional chamber and vocal concerts are scheduled throughout.

A program of duets written by the Composition Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center.

A program of short silent films with original scores by the Composition Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center.

Join us for an unconventional, immersive evening of promenade music, theater, and film at the Linde Center for Music and Learning. This site-specific original presentation is curated by soprano Tony Arnold and pianist Stephen Drury and features Tanglewood Music Center Fellows from a variety of disciplines.

“We connect Satie with Thoreau”—evoking freedom, non-violent resistance, and connections to our environment—is the motto that experimental composer John Cage used to create Song Books, a collection of 90 solos for voice, voice with electronics, and theatrical action with and without electronics. Selected songs are combined with film excerpts associated with Cage and his music for an unforgettable Full Tilt/Cinematics evening.

ONMC Concert and Networking Event for Composers and Performers

Music for Accordion and Oboe performed by ONMC musicians Mikey Sluman and Iñigo Mikeleiz Barrade by Sofia Gubaidulina, Melinda Maxwell, Angela Slater, Laurence Mason, Lara Jones, Lara Poe, Caroline Bordignon and Magnus Lindberg.

The Concert will be followed by a drinks reception for composers, performers and audience members to network and plant the seeds for musical collaboration.

£5 on the Door. 

km2-duo's concert offers a look into the freshest Finnish and international compositional approaches.  The convergence point of the soundworlds of the accordion and percussion instruments functions provides a consistent anchoring point for this concert, and each composer's aesthetic contributes in various ways to the overall equation.  The five new pieces composed for the duo over 2018-2019 include complexity, music inspired by silence, and flashes of tango and rock music.  

km2-duon konsertti on katsaus tuoreimpaan suomalaiseen ja kansainväliseen säveltaiteeseen. Harmonikan ja lyömäsoitinten mittavien äänimaailmoiden yhdistymiskohta toimii vakiona, ja jokaisen säveltäjän tyylilliset ominaispiirteet antavat yhtälölle erilaisen lopputuleman. Konsertin viisi vuonna 2018–19 duolle sävellettyä teosta sisältävät rinta rinnan kompleksismiä, hiljaisuuden inspiroimaa musiikkia sekä viittauksia muun muassa tangoon ja rockmusiikkiin.

T. Nevanlinna, U. Rojko, E. Møller, M. Yokoyama, L. Poe

Manca Dornik, accordion
Kalle Hakosalo, percussion
Vierailijana Alejandro Tentor, electric guitar

Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra in New York City

New York City premiere of works by Harlafti, Poe, and Martin, as well as Jeremey Rapaport-Stein's prize-winning quartet, Fuzzy Assemblages.

Moonlight Symphony Orchestra Easter Concert

An evening concert in aid of the St Marylebone Changing Lives Charity. During this concert the Moonlight Symphony Orchestra string section will be performing a range of sacred Music of the world's most famous sacred works ever composed in the history. With performances done throughout Europe the Moonlight Symphony Orchestra return to the UK for its World Premiere Requiem for the Strings Chorus.

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Repertoire:

Part 1:

W.A. Mozart k. 618

Vivaldi - Gloria In D Major RV 589

Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei

Mathew Olyver : Easter Meditation for Iris and Walter (a requiem for strings) World Premiere

Lara Poe: Waltz of the Crocus Chrysanthemus

G. P. Telemann: Concerto in G major for Viola, TWV 51:G9

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Part 2:

Gabriel Fauré: The Complete Requiem Strings Version op.48

Artists

London moonlight Symphony Orchestra (String Section and Organ)

James Flannery (Viola)

Isolda Da Costa Soares ( Soprano)

2019 Panufnik Composers Workshop

Workshop sessions with the London Symphony Orchestra, featuring music by the six composers on the 2018 Scheme, plus works by two composers who were awarded the ten-minute and five-minute commissions at the 2017 workshop.
 

Morning session 10am–1.30pm, Afternoon session 2.30pm–6pm

Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra in Boston

World premiere of works by Lara Poe and MSO Composer-in-Residence Niki Harlafti, as well as the world premiere of Frank Martin's Passacaille adapted for saxophone orchestra by Michael Brinzer. This concert will include Jacob Walls prize-winning quartet, Tachygenesis.

Moonlight Symphony Orchestra in Vienna

​A varied programme conducted by David Wordsworth, which includes English music, music by Handel and Mozart, as well as two new commissions.

Orchestral Masterworks: Elgar's Cello Concerto

Martin André conductor

Indira Grier cello

RCM Philharmonic 

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Programme:

Brahms Academic Festival Overture

Lara Poe Taivaanranta (world premiere)

Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor op 85

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The RCM Philharmonic, under the direction of Martin André, opens this Orchestral Masterworks programme with a rousing rendition of Brahms' merry medley of student drinking songs: the ever-popular Academic Festival Overture.

Afterwards, we bring you a world premiere of Lara Poe's Taivaanranta before Indira Grier closes the programme with the performance that won her this year’s Concerto Competition, Elgar’s Cello Concerto.

RCM Wind Ensemble: The Happy Workshop

Simon Channing director

RCM Wind Ensemble 

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Programme:

Stravinsky Octet

Lara Poe Contradanse

Zoe Darbyshire Amduat The Coming Forth by Day (world premiere)

R Strauss Symphony for Winds Fröhliche Werkstatt

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Head of Woodwind Simon Channing leads the RCM Wind Ensemble in a colourful programme of both wellknown and contemporary works. 

The varied programme has something for everyone including Stravinsky’s neo-classical Octet, Strauss' technically challenging sonatina, Fröhliche Werkstatt (The Happy Workshop), plus two new pieces from RCM composers Lara Poe and Zoë Darbyshire.

Opening concert of Tulindberg week of Oulu Conservatory.

Timo Kinnunen, accordion, antique accordion, electrocordion

Some works of composers in fotos.

Janos Bali: flesh! for accordion and stereo tape (world premiere)

Lara Poe: Aurora Borealis for solo accordion and mixed-media

Sofia Gubaijdulina: De Profundis

Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377): Ballads

Other composers Georg Muffat, Jean Sibelius, Steve Reich

Ensemble Linea Academy

​A selection of solos and duets chosen and interpreted by the Academy students.

First part : Duet km2 – Percussions / Accordion with Kalle Hakosalo and Manca Dornik (Finland - Slovenia).

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